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All the fine young men: If it had not been for the Second World War...
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Maker: Evans, Roslyn
Depicts a collage like image of two baby photographs and a photograph of two young men overlayed with sections of text, deal with politics and war, derived from newspapers. The border of the image con...ART29767.001
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Artist's sketchbook of drawings of HMAS Nepal, portraits and scenes onshore
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Maker: Coburn, John
Bound sketchbook of 14 pages containing 11 drawings including title page and two loose sheets, five blank pages, and two fascimiles of cartoons on paper. The sketchbook was produced at the time of Joh...ART93105
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Boy of Morata (about 12 years)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a twelve year old boy. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took ...ART96166
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Burial of the native child
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Maker: Dargie, William
Dargie noted, "One of the native men scrapes a shallow hole in the earth with a pointed stick. The police boy places the child in this and the earth is pushed back. The mother squats down beside it an...ART23818
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Carrots: Keep you healthy and help you to see in a blackout
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Maker: Ministry of Food [LONDON] : MINISTRY OF FOOD, [N.D.] (S.L. : JAMES HAWORTH & BROTHER FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE)
British Second World War poster produced by the Ministry of Food depicting a mother carrying a basket of carrots, with her small daughter, waiting in a blackout, as a car speeds by. The poster was int...ARTV06906
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Children's shoe and clothing exchange
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Maker: Unknown Board of Trade Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd.
British Second World War poster advertising a children's shoe and clothing exchange. The title is printed in red ink and dominates the upper quarter of the poster, with three paragraphs of text printe...ARTV03328
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Children's shoe and clothing exchange
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Maker: Unknown Board of Trade Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd.
British Second World War poster advertising a children's shoe and clothing exchange. The title is printed in red ink and dominates the upper quarter of the poster, with three paragraphs of text printe...ARTV03327
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Christmas 1942
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Maker: Unknown
A print commemorating Christmas in Loveday camp in South Australia. Two men sitting at a table, above them is a scene with a Christmas tree, on one side of the tree stands a soldier in uniform with a...ART92678
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Das ist das Heil, das sie bringen! (That is the salvation, that they bring)
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Maker: Heartfield, John Heartfield Archive and GDR Government
A skeleton hand with bomber planes issuing from its five fingers, raised imposingly over the destroyed city with bodies of dead children in the foreground. This work was horribly prophetic when first ...ARTV09077
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Dear Daddy... don't get accidented
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Maker: Giles, F Kenwood Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
casualty; cautionary poster produced for the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, depicting a child's letter to her father, which includes a s...ARTV01712
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Death for a neighbour on Banya St, Bulimba
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A pile of goulish-eyed monsters that had once seen action as Flying Fortresses, Liberators and 'Biscuit Bombers' lay rusting in a crumpled heap beside a little suburban house. The junk is part of an A...ART25592
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Dig for victory for their sake
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Agriculture as part of 'the Dig for Victory' campaign. The title text frames a black and white image of a foot and shovel digging into soil....ARTV04023
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Dig for Victory for Their Sake
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office J Weiner Ltd
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Agriculture as part of 'the Dig for Victory' campaign. The title text frames a black and white image of a foot and shovel digging into soil. I...ARTV03434
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Don't do it, Mother
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Health J Weiner Ltd
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Health warning parents to keep their children in the 'safe areas'. During the Blitz, many city children were evacuated to the country, away fr...ARTV01306
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Don't do it, Mother
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Health J Weiner Ltd
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Health warning parents to keep their children in the 'safe areas'. During the Blitz, many city children were evacuated to the country, away fr...ARTV03711
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Don't kill her daddy with careless talk
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Maker: Smith, Dorothy Hope [WASHINGTON] : OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION, 1944 (S.L. : U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE)
An American Second World War poster commissioned by the US Office of War Information to remind people to be aware of the consequences of sharing information with strangers. The United States, as well ...ARTV00296
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Don't Spit : Unsightly, Unsanitary, Unhealthy
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Maker: NEW YORK : NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION : QUEENSBORO TUBERCULOSIS AND HEALTH ASSOCIATION, [N.D.
Depicts a Second World War United States poster, produced by the National Tuberculosis Association, Queensboro Tuberculosis and Health Association branch, of three factory girls, horrified, watching a...ARTV05683
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Ernest
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Maker: Baird, John
A portrait of Ernest, a young Aboriginal from the Northern Territory, wearing a button-up shirt. This portrait was drawn at Mataranka in the Northern Territory during the Second World War.ART27933
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Evacuation
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Health Unknown
British Second World War poster outlining evacuation plans. During the Blitz, particularly, the British Government encouraged parents to send their children to safer areas, usually the countryside, aw...ARTV01918
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Evacuation
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Health Unknown
British Second World War poster outlining evacuation plans. During the Blitz, particularly, the British Government encouraged parents to send their children to safer areas, usually the countryside, aw...ARTV01960